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Global Women's Series 2013: Women and the Environment: Eco-feminism and Activism

The Global Women's Series addresses contemporary global issues affecting women and girls and is a collaborative effort between a wide range of faculty, students, staff and community members. The program is co-sponsored by the Office of International Education and Development, the Women's Studies Program, and the Belk Library and Information Commons. Faculty are encouraged to participate as well as invite students and staff to attend.

Faculty, students, staff and community members are invited to submit short performance works (5 minutes or less) or visual art to share individual and collective messages relating to building a sustainable community of health, justice, and connection. What are we doing to make a difference? What is our call to act? Participate by submitting this Registration Form.

If you have students, friends or colleagues who have made quality expressive art pieces or projects along the theme of environmental justice and activism, please encourage them to participate!

The library has just launched APPsearch, a new tool to search for books, journal and magazine articles, movies and much more -- all in one place!

APPsearch is a powerful, information-rich, highly intuitive, easy-to-use search tool. Starting with one simple search box, you can find all the library has to offer. Great, detailed information is now just a click away. APPsearch is loaded with useful features:

Google-like relevance ranking ensures that the best results rise to the top of your search

If you or your department have been receiving delivered library materials, please help us by returning the green bags. We're about to run out. Return them to the library or to any of the library's remote book drops. (Don't put them in campus mail.)

We have one ebook collection that allows you to check out ebooks and download them to read offline. The (EBSCO) eBook Collection has about 80,000 ebooks. These are not bestsellers but have been published by small and academic presses. You can browse here or you might come across these books in our catalog.

Here's how to get them on your iPad, iPhone, or Android device. You have to do these first 4 steps just once:

Set up an EBSCOhost account. If you have used EBSCO databases, you might already have one.

Today is Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey's birthday. He was born December 10, 1851. Dewey is best remembered for inventing the Dewey Decimal System, which is a book organization system. The Belk Library's Instructional Material's Center, which mirrors a K-12 school libary, uses this system. The library's main stacks use the Library of Congress Classifcation System. He also helped found the American Library Association, and was interested in simplfying spelling.

Congratulations to all the students who are graduating this December, 2012. We thank all of our student library employees for their hard work and dedication. Your work in the library is greatly appreciated!

After you visit the eBooks Help page, please feel free to contact NC LIVE with suggestions, comments, or questions. They want to know what will be the most helpful to users as they add new tutorials, so please let them know what you would like to see!

The University Library cordially invites you to a retirement reception in honor of Jack Love. Please join us to say thank you for his many years of service to the faculty, staff, students and others at Appalachian State University.